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0000-0001-6428-3933
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Universidad Austral de Chile
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Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2023
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 25-03-2019
Publisher: SciELO Agencia Nacional de Investigacion y Desarrollo (ANID)
Date: 09-2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2020
Publisher: SciELO Agencia Nacional de Investigacion y Desarrollo (ANID)
Date: 09-2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-09-2014
Publisher: SciELO Agencia Nacional de Investigacion y Desarrollo (ANID)
Date: 05-2011
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-05-2021
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 18-05-2017
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 14-12-2022
DOI: 10.3390/SU142416760
Abstract: Resilience thinking is critical for improving disaster preparedness, response, and adaptation. While there are several strategies focused on assessing resilience capacity in human communities, there are few strategies focused on fostering resilience thinking. Game-based learning is an active and immersive teaching strategy that can foster complex skills such as resilience. However, this field needs further research in terms of its potential to strengthen community resilience to disasters. In this paper, we validated a serious game to foster community resilience. We present the collaborative creation process for the development of the board game Costa Resiliente, and its subsequent migration into a video game. We have developed an experimental study to evaluate the contributions of the mobile game against the board game. The result is a technological tool based on scientific knowledge to foster resilience thinking in coastal human communities exposed to hazards. The board game was developed using data from local research on community resilience, and from experts in emergency planning and developing games collected in focus groups. The board game’s effect on fostering resilience thinking was validated with school students from a coastal town. During the migration process into a video game, we used a design thinking methodological approach for the co-creation of audiovisual elements, in which beneficiaries participate actively and early. Through this approach, visual and auditory elements that are familiar to coastal communities were integrated into the video game elements. Our study indicates that game-based learning is a useful approach to foster resilience thinking, and that a better gaming experience can be provided by a video game. The potential of this video game for educating young age groups about community resilience is further discussed.
Publisher: Sistema de Bibliotecas UACH
Date: 2010
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2015
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
Date: 09-09-2017
Abstract: Abstract. A large earthquake and tsunami took place in February 2010, affecting a significant part of the Chilean coast (Maule earthquake (Mw = 8.8). Dichato (37° S), a small town located on Coliumo Bay, was one of the most devastated coastal places and is currently under reconstruction. Therefore, the risk factors which explain the disaster at that time as well as perceived restoration 6 years after the event were analyzed in the present paper. Numerical modeling of the 2010 Chile tsunami with four nested grids was applied to estimate the hazard. Physical, socio-economic and educational dimensions of vulnerability were analyzed for pre- and post-disaster conditions. A perceived restoration study was performed to assess the effects of reconstruction on the community and a principal component analysis was applied for post-disaster conditions. The vulnerability factors that best explained the extent of the disaster were housing conditions, low household incomes and limited knowledge about tsunami events, which conditioned inadequate reactions to the emergency. These factors still constitute the same risks as a result of the reconstruction process, establishing that the occurrence of a similar event would result in a similar degree of disaster. For post-earthquake conditions, it was determined that all neighborhoods have the potential to be restorative environments soon after a tsunami. However, some neighborhoods are still located in areas devastated by the 2010 tsunami and present a high vulnerability to future tsunamis. Therefore, it may be stated that these areas will probably be destroyed again in case of future events.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 25-10-2016
Publisher: Universidad de Chile
Date: 05-2015
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2011
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 23-04-2023
DOI: 10.3390/SU15097065
Abstract: By definition, a smart city must improve its readiness for extreme events in order to confront the growing unpredictability of natural disasters. Doing this implies planning for resilience. That is, to enhance our capacity to cope, mitigate, adapt, and rebuild human settlements after a catastrophic event. Although scholars have argued that bio ersity can enhance resilience, there is a dearth of empirical research that specifically addresses this crucial issue. This research analyzes Nature’s Contributions to People related to tsunami resilience. Then, the relationship between bio ersity and community resilience indexes is examined for 50 coastal Chilean cities that are prone to tsunamis, using bio ersity data from an open access database. The resilience index “population living in the first kilometer from the shoreline” was found to be correlated with species richness (p = 0.48) and the evenness bio ersity index, Pielou (p = −0.47). These results suggest that bio ersity data availability is crucial for understanding nature’s contribution to human settlement resilience. Although this study was hindered by limited data availability, the potential use in other contexts remains valuable for the development of smart cities. The study highlights the need for increased bio ersity data collection on a national scale and emphasizes the use of ecoinformatics to create smart cities that can effectively respond to climate uncertainty in coastal urban areas.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2014
Publisher: SciELO Agencia Nacional de Investigacion y Desarrollo (ANID)
Date: 12-2012
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2012
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-10-2020
DOI: 10.1111/DISA.12369
Abstract: Urban planning can serve to minimise the effects of a tsunami and enhance community resilience. This study explores to what extent urban planning has addressed tsunami resilience in four villages on Chile's South Pacific coast, each of which was struck by tsunamis in 1960, 2010, and 2015. Through a detailed policy review and semi-structured interviews with residents, this paper analyses whether tsunami mitigation policies were incorporated into regional and local planning tools. It finds that although the government proposed relocation to tsunami-safe areas after the tsunami of 1960, urban development continued mainly in tsunami inundation zones-in the context of weak local planning frameworks and in the absence of community participation. In only one of the four case studies did participatory planning bring about the relocation of an entire village to a safe location. This paper concludes that incorporating participatory risk zone planning into urban planning enhances tsunami resilience.
Location: Chile
Start Date: 2016
End Date: 2017
Funder: Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2021
End Date: 2025
Funder: ANID
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2020
End Date: 2022
Funder: Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2019
End Date: 2022
Funder: Universidad Austral de Chile
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2019
End Date: 2022
Funder: Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2020
End Date: 2021
Funder: Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica
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